Word: glees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appreciative of the statement in a recent CRIMSON of the problem posed by the increasing number of undergraduates wanting the opportunity of choral singing. The need is a growing one at Harvard, and when last year, Harry Kraut 2G in cooperation with the Freshman Dean's office, organized a glee club for freshmen, we gave it our full support. This organization is being continued this year with the full sponsorship of the Harvard Glee Club. It will be able to accommodate most freshmen who have tried out, and thus will take care of a significant portion...
Those graduates of last year's freshman group who have had the valuable experience of having their interest in choral music aroused, and who do not make the Harvard Glee Club next week, will not strictly "have no chance to continue singing." There exist the Bach Society Chorus, the Music Club Chorus, Alfred Nash Patterson's Chorus Pro Musica in Boston, church choirs throughout the Cambridge and Boston areas. The operetta choruses have in the past actually had a majority of non-Glee Club singers, and, as in the case of the Winthrop House Opera last spring, additional Glee Club...
Most important, however, is the exciting possibility of House glee clubs. Adams House has had one for years; there are plans for a Dudley group under Lawrence Tafe '58; the Leverett House Glee Club, under John Grozier '56, is going into rehearsal momentarily...
...university, Stevenson's subject was "America, the Economic Colossus." Stevenson had some doubts about the colossus. Said he: "I am not a prophet of gloom. I am not a prophet of any kind whatever. Nonetheless, I groaned the other day when a leading politician said with glee, 'Everything is booming but the guns.' I wish people would take less interest in booms and more in stability-in making good conditions last...
Today Robert Gartside '50 leaves this country for a fellowship abroad. Before leaving, however, the assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club sang a farewell concert which must rank locally as his greatest personal musical achievement. Not only was his choice of program excellent, but he was also in better vocal form then ever before...